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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft will force Windows 11 installs to use Microsoft account
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 06:12:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-28, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> ... it confirms the removal of a popular bypass.
>
> It looks like local accounts will be a thing of the past, on PCs anyway. 
> Linux will be the last remaining option.
>
><https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-will-force-windows-11-installs-to-use-a-microsoft-account-confirms-removal-of-popular-setup-bypass>

The final reason to not install Windows on any partition at all. Zero 
interest in a Microsoft account and about the only time I boot into Windows 
(already) is to update it. So, basically, if you don't have a connection to 
the Internet you can't install Windows. Another win for Linux. 

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien